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The "Contes et nouvelles en vers" are the fruit of the author's wicked delight in the tales he found in Boccacio's "Decameron", Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", Rabelais and elsewhere. Marital misdemeanours, resourceful females, addled males, proved the inspiration for some richly inventive plotting.

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The "Contes et nouvelles en vers" of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, often these works threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Academie. This translation covers the entire corpus in all their variety.

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'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.'An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about animals (and humans), enhanced by iconic illustrations, will delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for character development. A precious collection presented in honour of the anniversary of Jean de la Fontaine's birth, which was 400 years in 2021. Ages: 3 plus

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Las " Fábulas " de La Fontaine son uno de los grandes monumentos literarios de la cultura europea y uno de los libros esenciales en la historia de la literatura francesa. Mucho más allá de los planteamientos morales y didácticos de la tradición grecolatina de Esopo y Fedro, el fabulista francés revitalizó el género en temas, contenidos, formas y proyección ideológica y estética. La Fontaine se sitúa así en el siglo de Descartes y Gassendi y anticipa el de Voltaire y Diderot, manteniendo, gracias a su espléndida calidad estética, ese carácter de modernidad que hace que podamos verlo como un antecedente de preocupaciones científicas, morales y sociales todavía vigentes en los debates del siglo XXI.Si las fábulas esópicas proponían una especie de acervo de ancestral filosofía popular, equivalente, en su moraleja, al repertorio de refranes, las fábulas de La Fontaine, muchas de ellas sin moraleja ni corolario, se acercan al escueto principio de los aforismos de Lichtenberg o de Nietzsc

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Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about animals (and humans), enhanced by iconic illustrations, will delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for character development. A precious collection presented in honour of the anniversary of Jean de la Fontaine's birth, which was 400 years in 2021. Ages: 3 plus

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This is the first English translation of a series of letter written by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine (renowned for his Fables) to his wife, describing his travels from Paris to Limoges in 1663. The letters contain a wealth of observations and should appeal to all lovers of La Faontaie and to those interested in the Grande Siecle and the era of Louis XIV.Robert Berger has published extensively on the art and architecture of the Louis XIV period and on the history of Paris.

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Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about animals (and humans), enhanced by iconic illustrations, will delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for character development. A precious collection presented in honour of the anniversary of Jean de la Fontaine's birth, which was 400 years in 2021. Ages: 3 plus

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Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about animals (and humans), enhanced by iconic illustrations, will delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for character development. A precious collection presented in honour of the anniversary of Jean de la Fontaine's birth, which was 400 years in 2021. Ages: 3 plus

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Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to expose the weaknesses of human nature, he offered vivid perspectives on greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The sixty fables collected here – from 'The Crow and the Fox' and 'The Cock and the Pearl' to 'The Grasshopper and the Ant' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' – are illustrated with more than a hundred drawings by R. de La Nezière which which charmingly capture La Fontaine’s unforgettable cast of animal personalities.

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